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Edited by Arashi Sora:
10/10/2015 6:44:16 AM
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Microsoft Admits It's Losing the Console Sales War
tl;dr: Phil Spencer admits they f**ked up early with the whole DRM, used games thing, and now he doesn't know if Xbox One will ever catch up to PS4 sales numbers.
At least he have the balls to say they made a mistake, and that they don't know if Xbox One will ever match PS4 sales. Takes a lot of guts to admit that freely to the internet.
NOTE: I'm on Xbox and don't own a Play Station. I'm just posting an interesting article.
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#Gaming
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Wasn't the CEO before Spencer became CEO that made that dumb decision?
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Being on both consoles they are equally as good. They both have there strengths and weaknesses. And those who are still arguing about which console is better, get over yourselves. One console works for one person, the other console works for the other person.
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13 Repliessony drones still think sales are even relevant... smh idiots these days
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I like that Phil is straight up about that, I feel that If he was the head of Xbox when Xbone launched, it would be a competition for PS4. But forcing DRM, Kinect, etc in the beginning was a catastrophic fu*k up for Xbox and PS4 crushed them. All the forcing and restrictions made me go from being a dedicated Xbox player to a PC player. I did buy an Xbone though for Halo last December when MCC had been out a few weeks and Halo 5 beta started...the hardcore Halo fan in me can't deny wanting to play Halo. And IMO the Halo 5 beta did not disappoint, so hyped to play it at launch in 2 weeks.
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2 RepliesNot looked at the article nor have I looked at sales figures but I think it's too early to say. People said PS3 would never catch up or pass the 360 but it did right there at the end of the life cycle. And they -blam!-ed up with a ridiculous price tag. -a ps4 user
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5 RepliesNone of them will ever loose a console war. There's no winners or loosers, only more and less profitable consoles.
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36 Replies360 was always ahead of the PS3 but people still played both
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"Blast Processing"
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That doesn't mean I prefer ps4. Now I'm going to continue to play Xbox from my computer thank you very much.
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8 RepliesBoth consoles (ps4 and xbox) run on software from microsoft am i right? So how can't they keep up with Sony?
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13 RepliesToo bad more people prefer the one. Ps4 was cheaper for a while. Black Friday when the console was super cheap it outsold the ps4 by alot
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9 RepliesAnd yet my ps4 which I received for free from a friend who bought both consoles just sits there doing nothing....... I really have no reason to use it I don't like their exclusives as much as I do Microsoft's I mean come on tomb raider, halo, gears of war. Sure ps4 is getting all the deals this time around but my Xbox is where I spend all my time sorry but the jade rabbit just isn't enough for me to start playing my ps4
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3 RepliesYou are, all of you, vermin. Cowering in your consoles, thinking... graphics? I wonder? That you might escape the coming fire? No. Your consoles will burn until its surface is but glass! And not even your controllers will live to creep, blackened, from its hole to mar the reflection of our PC graphics; the culmination of our motherboards. For your destruction is the will of the GaBen! And I...I am their 4k monitor.
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Console wars are stupid. I own both. My Xbox is for halo, cod, and some exclusives. While my playstation is for it's exclusives and destiny. People shouldn't be so picky. We are lucky to have the technology available to create consoles such as Xbox 1 and ps4.
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7 RepliesPersonally I'd like to see the Xbox and Microsoft do a sega ... I think it would be great for gaming in general
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Czechm8, fanbois
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2 RepliesHopefully they'll learn from their mistakes, and the next Xbox will be awesome
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6 RepliesWho really gives a shit about console wars
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Good honestly competition in the market helps all of us now Microsoft will release cheap games and deals for Xbox users
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2 RepliesWell, they are behind by, I think it was 10 million sales? I mean, they might catch up. Sony was a year late with the PS3 and sold terribly, but was able to catch up. I heard it sold more than the Xbox 360 actually. So with Phil Spencer turning things around with the Xbox One, there might still be a chance that it will happen to him too.
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Kudos to Mr. Spencer then. Hopefully, they've realized why that happened.
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6 RepliesEdited by Dvtch: 10/11/2015 6:08:56 PMIt's cool, with Microsoft in second they are working extremely hard to make up ground and we have been reaping the benefits. Forza 6 is amazing and I've noticed that the free games on gold have been better this year
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2 RepliesI bought a PS4 earlier because of some of the negative things being said about the Xbone. Can't remember them all now. Anyway, I still want to get one later on, unless something bad financially happens to me, health or otherwise.
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knew that would happen. at least they admitted it, though this won't help the console war on our level
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Why is this a big deal to some people.
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I own and like them both. I don't think one will run the other out of business. Each has their positives and negatives. From what I understand it seems ps4 is rapidly growing in international sales but Microsoft has God money.
